The show's host opened last night's broadcast with a musical trip through TV's most zeitgeisty shows

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September 19, 2011 4:20PM (UTC)

Last night's Primetime Emmy Awards included a number of unexpected highlights. Take, for example, the evening's opening number, which saw host Jane Lynch bounding through a half-dozen TV shows, singing, dancing and cracking wise throughout. As Lynch said herself around the halfway point: "I know this seems stupid and schlocky and already feels overly long, but it's the Emmys!" Indeed, it was.